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How ArsDigita went from a being buzzing Startup to legal fight between founders and VC's

A very interesting story of a startup which went from being one of the sought after by VC's to going bust and being entangled in legal fights. Their philosphy "we'll attack this problem a few years before more...
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Focused social networks for VCs

New England Venture Network, a regional social group for venture capitalists, is launching VentureNetwork.vc, an online social network for professionals who are like-minded. So, these islands of vertical more...
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VCs Kept On Funding throughout the summer

Om Malik is reporting that VC continued to invest despite the summer, for the third quarter investments by VC's totaling to $7.1 billion. Internet specific companies took $1.1 billion of VC investment more...
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Where the interests of Founders and VCs diverge

Stacey Higginbotham goes into this likely situation - what happens when the interests of the Entrepreneurs and the VCs diverge? Taking the example of a startup myPodder who can target both Enterprise more...
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9 VCs You’re Gonna Want to Avoid

Serial founder Larry Chiang shares his wisdom by actually listing (yes, just check it out) 9 Venture Capitalists that one must avoid when seeking funding. He tells you that if your company has revenues more...
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Euro VCs Report Flurry of Online Deals

Index Ventures and Atlas Ventures have reported a flurry of new deals in the funding business. It includes a number of startup companies being funded such as Zoopla (algorithm for analysing data relating more...
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VCs Have Flashback Syndrome

Experienced VCs have invested in lots of companies and inevitably some of those companies have failed. When a VC sees a new company that is similar to a previous investment that failed VCs tend to shy more...
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3 VCs - Growing Up Green

These are 3 hot VCs in the Clean Tech area: Aileen Lee, 38, and Trae Vassallo, 35, are partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the third is 33 year old Samir Kaul who is the right hand man of more...
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VCs: Like Your Mother Without the Hugs

Stacey Higginbotham is going into some interesting details shared anonymously by a NVCA member about the results of research conducted by Research Data Technology on VCs and how they are perceived by entreprene more...
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VCs slowing down?

Inspite of a one-day sunshine and smiles in Wall Street that the economic woes are over, it appears that the VCs are heading for the cellars and things do not look good for the startup community. This more...
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